Desierto de Sillas

From immensity, from nothing, from the desert or the empty, a character irrupts. She walks and sees. Warm lights in the hands of “an other” constructs her. The sound of a sandstorm. She coexists amongst imagery, throughout the chairs and people set around her. The confrontation between individuals and their own demons, their ancestors, and identities. To look into the eyes of an other as a mirror from one’s personal desert. Finding the way to communicate through this desert, finding human empathy in this proximity.

Desierto de Sillas_ (Desert of chairs) is a live collaborative improvisation dance piece that creates a high aesthetic experience. It is an art work centred on body intensity in which movement, electronic sound, light intervention and the public interact together. Dancer and choreographer Karina Suárez Bosche developed this 45 minute performance with the collaboration and live presence of sound and light/set designers, involving improvisation as a basis of communication between the disciplines. An extensive research through improvisation lead the creative team to build this piece in which the audience is given an active voice.

Credits:

Creation and movement improvisation: Karina Suarez Bosche

Live Sound: Felipe Sánchez Luna

Intervention and light design: Cheng Ting Chen

Original live sound and composition: Alberto Cerro, Jaime Lobato Cardoso